Said Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

— Kurt Vonnegut

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

— Kurt Vonnegut

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“my father said, "when in dount, castle”

— Kurt Vonnegut

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

— Kurt Vonnegut

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

— Kurt Vonnegut

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

— Kurt Vonnegut

As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

— Kurt Vonnegut

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack…

— Kurt Vonnegut

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you…

— Kurt Vonnegut

After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make…

— Kurt Vonnegut

He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He…

— Kurt Vonnegut

How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I am about to say something that must have been said by men to women several times before”I informed her , “However,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that…

— Kurt Vonnegut